Supporting terrorists part of US foreign policy: Analyst
The United States has been refusing to separate terrorists from what it describes as "moderate" militants in Syria, leading to a standoff which wrecked a ceasefire agreement with Russia last month.
An analyst tells Press TV that it has been a feature of American foreign policy to support terrorist groups as part of its own objectives since at least the 1950s.
“Afghanistan is perhaps the best example where Americans with Saudi money and Pakistani facilities set up training camps for al-Qaeda which they then infiltrated into Afghanistan and into the Muslim dominant republics in the southern USSR that was known as Operation Cyclone and it is carried on in various forms ever since and what we are seeing in Syria is simply a continuation of that policy process,” James O'Neill told Press TV in an interview on Friday.
O'Neill also said the US has no intention of seriously achieving a peaceful resolution to the crisis in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
He went on to say that the US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been the “predominant suppliers” of various terrorist groups in Syria with the objective of overthrowing the legitimate government of President Bashar al-Assad.
The analyst further noted that Washington has used the previous ceasefires in Syria to “regroup” and “rearm” the terrorists.
The comments came after as Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, said foreign support for the terrorists, who have entered Syria via Turkey, was the “root cause” of insecurity and humanitarian disasters in the Arab country.
The conflict in Syria, which began in March 2011, has claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people, according to an estimate by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
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